One day he asks, ‘If you crept into God’s (imaginary) office tonight and found a sticky note on the wall about you, what do you think you would find?’ A girl puts up her hand and says, ‘Amazing!’ At another school, a student stops Peter in the hallway and says, ‘Sir, there’s a boy I know who wants to talk to you about church.’ It was a blessing to meet a staff member who told Peter how much she has read and re-read the book Beautiful Quest, which Peter published in 2015. Peter has introduced—staff who have questions—to the biographies of people like Corrie Ten Boom. Peter always asks the class to be quiet while he asks for a blessing, and— especially over the last year—it has included prayer for rain. So, he’s at one of the more remote schools, it’s a steaming hot day and they’re upstairs with the door open. Outside, a thunder storm rolls in with a heavy downpour. The boys all race out to the balcony to watch and the loudest (most challenging) boy in the class, yells out three times in a row, ‘Thank you God for the rain!’ Then there’s a new class with a lot of students; it gets so rowdy that Peter messages for the deputy to come, which he never has to do. She comes down and they’re soon pulled into order—but she stays and helps for the rest of the lesson. Then, just on bell time, a rebel boy at the back of the room—who is desperate to have go at the challenge table—reads his bible verse out. Peter asks him to read it again. ‘Don’t fool yourself,’ the boy reads, 'bad friends will destroy you!’ In another school, the teacher stops Peter at the end of the class and says, ‘What you said about having hope because you have been changed and are being changed by God’s Spirit; I once read a verse in the letter of Romans, which says, “Suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character and character produces hope.” It changed my life.’ Then there are the many students who call out to Peter as he walks along corridors and across school yards—and Peter’s thanking God so much for them One day, Peter was about to go on a long walk to the other end of the school for his next class when a teacher called out to him—‘No, it’s sorted, we changed the rooms so that you can use the same room!’ Thank you so much for sharing in, and bearing, our debt of love. Encouraging snapshots… Peter loves asking creative questions and the natural conversation moments... (1Cor 15:33) and for your prayers, because some of these days are really hard! i Prayer... Bush Scripture PETER & PENELOPE VOLKOFSKY